The blog post in their forums is titled "Freemium Experience: More Features for All".
Also, they quietly doubled the price for VIP accounts in September (used to be $30/y)
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2025
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Enshittification
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Reading that announcement and the list of their VIP offering is so weird. $6/mo for spoiler free browsing whatever that is, 100+ items on list, notes and collection (!) and then some technical features like iCAL/RSS and CVS export and of course a VIP badge next to your username. It seems to me they are targeting some social media revenue streams but struggling coming up with features that would motivate VIP so instead they cut back on what is already there. My guess is next step is locking down the API and then bullshit like influencers livestreaming reviews. Yeah, I'll move to TMDb and keep moving to something self hosted should they to go sludgy.
Honestly I expected something like that would happen. It’s a bummer. $60 a year is insane.
Are there any other services that support scrobbling?
Letterboxd unfortunately does not offer public APIs but TMDb does.
I guess all that is needed for TMDb is somebody enthusiastic enough to code a scrobbler for it.
January 21, 2025
Updates
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- New limits in place for free users:
- 2 personal lists.
- 100 items on watchlist, personal lists, and collection.
Source: https://releasenotes.trakt.tv/